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Impressionable vs Compliant - What's the difference?

impressionable | compliant |

As adjectives the difference between impressionable and compliant

is that impressionable is being easily influenced (especially of young people) while compliant is willing to comply; yielding; bending; pliant; submissive; willing to do what someone wants.

As a noun impressionable

is an impressionable person.

impressionable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Being easily influenced (especially of young people).
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An impressionable person.
  • * 1942 , Frank Gervasi, War Has Seven Faces
  • They were the faces of the same gentlemen who plied the corruptibles in Rumania with cash and impressed the impressionables with Germany's power.

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    compliant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Willing to comply; yielding; bending; pliant; submissive; willing to do what someone wants.
  • The suspect was compliant when arrested.
  • Compatible with or following guidelines, specifications, rules, or laws.
  • The browser is standards compliant .
    The workplace is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

    Derived terms

    (compatible with guidlines) * *

    See also

    * compliantly

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